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Cancer to be world's top killer by 2010, WHO says
ATLANTA - Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts reported Tuesday.
Nations:India China Mexico Russia People:Lance Armstrong
2008-12-09
FTC tosses guidance on tar, nicotine in cigarettes
WASHINGTON - The cigarette industry for 42 years has made factual claims about tar and nicotine levels based on machine testing blessed by the Federal Trade Commission.
Source:(AP)
2008-11-28
Encouraging dip in rate of new cancers, deaths
WASHINGTON - The rate of new cancer cases finally may be inching down -- cautiously optimistic news but a gain that specialists worry could be derailed by economic turmoil. Death rates from cancer have been dropping slowly for years, thanks to earlier detection and better treatments. But preventing cancer is the ultimate goal, and Tuesday's annual "Report to the Nation" on cancer also shows a small but encouraging change: The rate of new diagnoses among men dropped 1.8 percent a year between 2001 and 2005.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-11-26
AIDS pioneers and cancer researcher win Nobel prize
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who found the virus that causes cervical cancer were awarded the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology on Monday.
Nations:France Sweden People:Ronald Reagan Jacques Chirac
2008-10-06
Genome analysis used to decode brain cancer: study
PARIS (AFP) - US scientists have unveiled the most complete genetic profile ever attempted of glioblastoma, a common and deadly form of the brain cancer that US Senator Edward Kennedy is battling.
Nations:France People:Edward Kennedy Source:(AFP)
2008-09-06
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